 | Railroad Commission of Kentucky - Municipal services - 1910 - 576 pages
...made by the late Justice Brewer in Interstate Commerce Commission v. Railway Co., 167 US 479-499 : "It is one thing to inquire whether the rates which...charged in the future — that is a legislative act." It is to be noticed that the question with which the learned Justice was then confronted was whether... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 1166 pages
...Commerce Commission v. Cincinnati, etc., RR Co., 167 US 479, 499, 17 Sup. Ct. 896, 900 (42 L. Ed. 243) : "It is one thing to inquire whether the rates which...charged in the future — that is a legislative act" The court did not seek to fix a rate for future service by appellant, but exercised jurisdiction to... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1914 - 812 pages
...Court held it had no such right. 10 The conclusion of the court was condensed into the statement that "it is one thing to inquire whether the rates which...charged in the future, — that is a legislative act." In Louisville, NO & TR Co. v. Mississippi " the line between interstate and intrastate commerce was... | |
 | 1897 - 550 pages
...necessary whenever the intent has been to give to the commissioners the legislative power of fixing rates. It is one thing to inquire whether the rates which...charged in the future — that is a legislative act. (Railway Co. v. Minnesota, 134 US 418, 458; Reagan v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co., 154 US 362, 397; Railway... | |
 | United States - 1897 - 836 pages
...relative to its power of ratemaking, the Supreme Court adds the following elementary statement : — " It is one thing to inquire whether the rates which...collected are reasonable,— that is a judicial act ; but it is an entirely different thing to prescribe rates which shall be charged in the future, — that... | |
 | Joseph Nimmo (Jr.) - 1899 - 404 pages
...Cincinnati-Chicago Freight Bureau Case, already cited, announced the following rule of constitutional law : " It is one thing to inquire whether the rates which...different thing to prescribe rates which shall be charged for the future — that is a legislative act ; " And again : " The power to prescribe a tariff of rates... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce - Interstate commerce - 1900 - 502 pages
...rate making is clearly indica ted in the Cincinnati-Chicago Freight BureauCase (decided May 24, 1897): "It is one thing to inquire whether the rates which...charged in the future — that is a legislative act. (Railway Co. r. Minnesota, 134 US, 418, 458; Reagan v. Fanners' Loan & Trust Co., 1.54 U. 8., 302,397;... | |
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It is one thing to inquire whether the rates which have been charged and collected are reasonable — that is a judicial act ; but an entirely different thing to prescribe rates which shall be charged in the future — that is a legislative act. 
